March 25, 2010
11:06 p.m.
Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes:
Personally, I'm less concerned about sets of floats ending up with strange combinations of NANs than I am about the possibility of disastrous maths errors caused by allowing NANs to test as equal. Here's a simplistic example:
You just said "if you choose to use floats, then you need to understand that NANs are weird". I wonder why this saying shouldn't apply to your "simplistic example" of NAN usage. (is your example even from real life?)